[Noisebridge-discuss] maybe something else we don't want in the space

[Andy Isaacson]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:47AM -0700, grey wrote:
> So we've talked about not having CRT's donated, which I think is a
> great idea.  But I've also been seeing a bunch of 10/100 hubs showing
> up.  I don't know about the rest of you guys, but these things were
> seriously out of date a decade ago, so unless someone is planning to
> strip the tiny linklight LED's off them for projects I'd kind of
> rather not see anything network gear like this showing up.

The strong distinction with CRTs is, it *costs* money to dispose of
them.  No matter how many 10baseT hubs we accumulate, we can drop them
off at ACCRC / Green Citizen for free.  Whereas, CRTs are $5 or more per
tube to dispose of properly.

The great thing about cheapo network hardware is that it draws very
little current.  I'm uber pleased we got that managed Cisco 100baseT
switch, but it draws 32W of the 70W total for the networking closet
(Soekris + 100baseT switch + WRT54G + Ruckus + Fonera VoIP = 40W).

-andy